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Buddhist meditation

The second form of Theravada meditation is called
vipassana (Pali: “inner vision” or “insight meditation”). This practice requires intense concentration, which is thought to lead to a one-pointedness of mind that allows the meditator to gain insight into the saving truth that all reality is impermanent, permeated by suffering, and...

mysticism

The Buddhist meditative practice of
satipatthana (Sanskrit: “mindfulness”) or
vipassana (“insight”), which aims to arrest the process of thought, induces a reverie state of mystical intensity that Buddhists consider a pseudo-nirvana. A Christian mystical technique, which John Wesley, the founder...